We ought to give thanks for all fortune: it is is good, because it is good, if bad, because it works in us patience, humility and the contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country

Our Gross National Product now is over 800 billion dollars a year.

Robert Francis Kennedy, Remarks

I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.

Neil Gaiman

A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Ronald Knox

Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.

George Weinberg

Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself

Mahatma Gandhi

It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.

Moli

With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.

Bill Pullman

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.

Soren Kierkegaard

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.

Ruth Benedict

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Francis Bacon

Any day acting is an amazing day.

Kiernan Shipka

Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care that's what poetry is supposed to do.

Diane Wakoski